SELECTED GEOGRAPHY CONCEPTS AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAMME IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
SELECTED GEOGRAPHY CONCEPTS AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAMME IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
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1986-10
Authors
BABANDO, YUNUSA ALIYU
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Abstract
Social Studios as a new discipline in the country is
presently gaining recognition in both the policy delibrations
under the new education system and in a more wider di mention
of curriculum development. Going in this perspective are
serious shortcomings of most materials produced for the
Social Studies programme, prominent among which are the neglect
of the role Geography concepts and skills can play in the
attainment of Social Studies objectives and the emphasis on
facts as against conceptual development.
Unknown to many Social Studies teachers, the need for
grasping the concept of areal arrangements and distribution
of physical and cultural phenomena in space and time as taught
in Social Studies has i ts roots in Geography, The Geography
concepts inevitably form a part of every Social Studies unit,
for in every unit the child learns about interrelationships
among a Society, its culture and its environment, and about
differences and similarities between places.
Suprisingly, a limited knowledge and understanding of
geography, its concepts and relationship are provided in the
Social Studies programme and its activities. The teachers
on the other hand are unfaniliar with the concept:; and methods
of geography which reduces it to a memory exercise of loosely
organised facts.
Description
A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE POST-GRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, IN PARTIAL
FULFILMENT FOR THE DEGREE OF
MASTERS OF EDUCATION
IN
CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN SOCIAL STUDIES
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
OCTOBER, 1986.
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SELECTED,, GEOGRAPHY,, CONCEPTS,, SKILLS,, DEVELOPMENT,, SOCIAL,, STUDIES,, PROGRAMME,, SECONDARY,, JUNIOR,, SCHOOL,